As The View’s resident dumbass, Whoopi Goldberg is expected to dazzle with her ignorance and astound with her stupidity. Unfortunately, Goldberg has taken a hiatus from the show, leaving an idiocy vacuum. Luckily, co-host Joy Behar has boned up on her bullshit to fill the void. In possibly the single dumbest statement ever spoken, Behar demonstrated that she doesn’t know anything about guns, the Constitution, or the law.
In the following clip, Joy Behar is giving her take on the pending Supreme Court case, The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. New York State Police. In the case, New York’s “may issue” concealed carry policy is being challenged as unconstitutional. States with “may issue” policies can reject qualified applicants for concealed carry permits for any reason and usually do.
What is she smoking?!
Behar warns: “The Supreme Court is poised to pass a bill contradicting the New York City State laws” on concealed carry to make it “an open carry state, and an open carry city.”
This is a lie. pic.twitter.com/QTXousIFkS— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 13, 2022
“The Supreme Court is poised to pass a bill contradicting the New York City — state laws. We have very strict gun laws here, and they would like it to be — apparently, somebody has put this on their desk — that New York should be an open carry state and then open carry city with all of the density in this city. They want people running around with guns. Middle-class people will be leaving in droves if that happens,” said Behar.
Let’s count how many things wrong she squeezed into that brief statement:
1 – The Supreme Court doesn’t pass laws, they rule on the Constitutionality of laws pass by legislatures.
2 – No Supreme Court ruling contradicts a state law, a state law contradicts the Constitution, which the Supreme Court rules on.
3 – “Somebody” didn’t put this on the Supreme Court’s desk, it was a lawsuit filed by the NYSRPA and it made its way through the court system before the Supreme Court agreed to hear it.
4 – This case doesn’t involve “open carry” it’s about the concealed carry permitting process.
5 – People won’t be running around with guns if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the NYSRPA, the concealed carry permitting process will still involve a background check and training requirement. They only difference is, NY cannot deny qualified applicants.
6 – If the SCOTUS strikes down NY’s “may issue” policy, that will render the “may issue” policies in other states unconstitutional as well. Middle-class people won’t be leaving New York in droves to states that have “may issue” because it will be unconstitutional in the entire country.
As a bonus, Behar followed up with this lie:
Behar then falsely claims that President George W. Bush signed legislation that “lifted the ban” on AR-15s.
In reality, the bill was allowed to expire because there was no statistical difference. pic.twitter.com/bzwFCFkRdZ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 13, 2022
“There was a ban on AR-15 and then George W. Bush got in, he lifted the band and since then, the numbers went up,” claimed Behar.
1 – There was no ban on AR-15s, there was a ban certain semi-automatic rifles that liberals called “assault rifles.
2 – The Clinton-era Assault Weapons Ban was passed in 1994 and expired 10 years later. Bush didn’t lift the ban
3 – If the AWB didn’t have a sunset clause, Bush, the POTUS at the time, could not have lifted it because presidents cannot undo laws passed by Congress.
4 – I have no idea what “numbers” Joy Behar is talking about going up but since the early 1990s when violent crime was at an all-time high, there has been a steady decline. Crime has only recently been going back up because of liberal “justice reform” bullshit.
Sure, this Behar stupidity isn’t as funny as when Whoopi Goldberg said Jill Biden should be the Surgeon General because, “she’s a hell of a doctor” but it is more dangerous. A not insignificant amount of people get their information from The View and everything Behar said was a lie. If you’ve ever wondered why some people are so f*cking stupid, this is why.
